1 Samuel 2:6

Contextual Overview

¹ And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation. ¹ Then Hannah prayed: "My heart rejoices in the Lord ! The Lord has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me. ¹ And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exulteth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. ¹ Hannah prayed: "The Lord has filled my heart with joy; I feel very strong in the Lord . I can laugh at my enemies; I am glad because you have helped me! ¹ Hannah prayed, "My heart rejoices in the Lord ; my horn is exalted high because of the Lord . I loudly denounce my enemies, for I am happy that you delivered me. ¹ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. ¹ Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation. ¹Hannah prayed and said, "My heart rejoices and triumphs in the LORD; My horn (strength) is lifted up in the LORD, My mouth has opened wide [to speak boldly] against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation. ¹ And Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the Lord ; my horn is exalted in the Lord . My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. ¹ And Anna worschipide, and seide, Myn herte fulli ioiede in the Lord, and myn horn is reisid in my God; my mouth is alargid on myn enemyes, for Y was glad in thin helthe.

Bible Verse Review
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killeth: Deuteronomy 32:39, 2 Kings 5:7, Job 5:18, Psalms 68:20, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:2, John 5:25-29, John 11:25, Revelation 1:18

he bringeth: 1 Samuel 20:3, Psalms 116:3, Isaiah 26:19, Jonah 2:2-6, Matthew 12:40, 2 Corinthians 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:2 - Am I Leviticus 14:34 - I put the plague of leprosy 1 Kings 17:22 - and he revived Job 33:22 - his soul Proverbs 24:12 - that keepeth Ecclesiastes 3:3 - time to kill Ecclesiastes 5:14 - and he Isaiah 38:9 - he had Ezekiel 37:3 - O Lord God Luke 1:52 - put Luke 7:7 - but John 11:44 - he that 1 Timothy 6:13 - who quickeneth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive,.... Which is true of different persons; some he takes away by death, and others he preserves and continues in life; and of the same persons, whom God removes by death, and restores them to life again, of which there are instances both in the Old and New Testament; and be they which they will, both are of God, he is the great Disposer of life and death. Death is of him; it is by his appointment; it is sent by his order; and when it has a commission from him, there is no resisting it; and let it be brought about by what means it will, still it is of God: and life is of him; it is first given by him, and it is preserved by him; and though taken away, it shall be restored at the resurrection of the dead; of which some interpret this clause, as Kimchi and Ben Gersom observe: and what is here said is true, in a spiritual sense; the Lord kills by the law, or shows men that they are dead in sin, and in a legal sense; and he makes alive by his Spirit, through the Gospel, quickening such who were dead in trespasses and sins; which is his own work, and the effect of divine power and grace; :-.

he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up; he bringeth some very near to the grave, to the very brink of it; so that in their own apprehensions, and in the opinion of their friends, they are just dropping into it, and no hope of recovery left; when he says to them "Return", and brings them back from the pit, and delivers them from going into it, Job 33:22 and even when they are laid in it, he brings up out of it again, as in the case of Lazarus, and which will be the case in the resurrection, John 5:28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:6. The Lord killeth — God is the arbiter of life and death; he only can give life, and he only has a right to take it away.

He bringeth down to the grave — The Hebrew word שאול sheol, which we translate grave, seems to have the same meaning in the Old Testament with αδης, hades in the New, which is the word generally used by the Septuagint for the other. It means the grave, the state of the dead, and the invisible place, or place of separate spirits. Sometimes we translate it hell, which now means the state of perdition, or place of eternal torments; but as this comes from the Saxon [Anglo-Saxon], to cover or conceal, it means only the covered place. In some parts of England the word helling is used for the covers of a book, the slating of a house, c. The Targum seems to understand it of death and the resurrection. "He kills and commands to give life he causes to descend into Sheol, that in the time to come he may bring them into the lives of eternity," i.e., the life of shame and everlasting contempt, and the life of glory.